so yeah. But .....why?

I took a harbor cruise today. The United States is a few weeks away from being towed out to it's final resting place. I figured taking a photo of the corpse of the fastest ocean liner that would ever be was worth the effort of taking a few photos of her. The stacks were all gone....too tall to be re...

I got to thinking about my Spanish Mauser and about the caliber marking. The 7.62 mark is there on the receiver on the side opposite the bolt handle

Good to see a new member. As to the question. I'd imagine you know that the Spanish Mauser was originally configured for the 7x57. Then when the Nato round became the European caliber of choice after WWII many Spanish Mausers were then reconfigured to fire the Nato 7x62. The thought crosses my mind ...

Once upon a time gun laws in the US were pretty liberal. You could buy and sell without any government oversite. However, people were just as afraid of guns changing hands a hundred years ago as today....at least some of them. Now, trickery was apparently used by gun authorities back then when it su...

The X-700 was the flagship of the Minolta MPS manual focus camera group. It was very popular and won camera of the year in Europe in 1981. It worked in manual, aperture priority, and if you twist the MD lens to the green 22 and turned the selector knob to the Green P, you had a program mode that ena...

Trump's Secretary of war, the National Guard guy, calls in all the Generals to Washington. He has a better idea of how the US military ought to act.

In college football the games between Alabama and Georgia pack stadiums and draw millions of people to the TV sets. How the game comes out is of more interest than any game going on in America at the time it's played. And before the game the TV panel of commentators make their pick as to which team ...

Looks like I got a bargain. Have no idea what the back story is as to why it was in my local store. Oh.... there is a manorial election next week. One of the candidates is married into the family that owns the grocery chain. Nah.. that isn't likely the excuse. That wouldn't be some kind of bribe I w...